How can Monitoring Health and Lifestyle Parameters Help to Keep Lifestyle Disorders at Bay and in Control?

Our lifestyle parameters, such as eating habits, physical activity, smoking, rising population, chronic stress, socioeconomic position, air pollution, and industrialization, all contribute to a healthy immune system. After birth, immunity develops as a result of nutrition, age, and antigen activation, with diet playing a significant part in immunomodulation. When a person lives his or her life in a certain way, he or she is more likely to develop a lifestyle disease.

Furthermore, those with irregular life patterns show early signs and symptoms of such disorders. Monitoring of health and lifestyle parameters can identify unhealthy and irregular patterns and predict disease risk before the actual illness manifests itself.

With regular health monitoring and assessment, it is feasible to prevent a lifestyle disorder from occurring in the first place. Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, obesity, colorectal cancer, and premature death can all be prevented with a healthy lifestyle and physical activity. Monitoring health and lifestyle parameters allows a person to examine his or her lifestyle and become aware of every unusual trend.

Moreover, health monitoring systems automatically review and monitor the person's health and everyday life activities. The majority of today's home health systems are healthcare monitoring systems. A sort of health monitoring parameter is lifestyle monitoring based on activity. Lifestyle habits are measured using statistical information from daily life in such approaches.

Human health is a highly subjective concept. What constitutes "normal" differs from person to person. A cup of coffee can raise your blood pressure, and the mere thought of having your blood checked can make your heart skip a beat. While these are transient events, a variety of factors ranging from daily activity levels to family history might have an impact on your vitals and potentially contribute to lifestyle illnesses. That isn't to say that problems aren't present.

Medical complications shouldn't intimidate you; moreover, it's the opportunity to learn more about your health. And everyone with chronic conditions now thought they were healthy at one time. The most precise amount of your body's everyday functioning is the average of many readings taken throughout the day. Glucometers, pulse oximeters, and blood pressure monitors were originally inaccessible medical devices, but owing to technological advancements, they are now widely available and simple to use.

Consistent monitoring of parameters can be used to better identify aspects that affect a person's condition as telehealth becomes the practice. Because of the tremendous force that the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has given health-tech businesses, telemedicine is the flavor of the period, and this is an extra advantage. When combined with constant vital tracking, remote or in-person doctor visits can help patients take control of their health. Patients can utilize the information to better understand and address the issues that affect their vital signs. The usage of at-home health monitors can help patients adhere to recommended therapies because doctors can now track the impact of their suggestions in real time.

Data analytics are also used by digital health systems to assist clinicians in providing preventive treatment, particularly in the case of chronic diseases. The heart of measuring vitals has a high level of fluctuation, necessitating a wider use of health monitors. The obtained data can be used to deliver long-term insights when correctly combined with digital health solutions. Routine health tracking, which includes everything from optimal activity levels to medication adherence, can greatly simplify chronic illness management.

However, if you don't go that far, checking your health regularly has proven benefits that you should consider. Understandably, testing your blood pressure daily may seem unnecessary. However, the goal of constant monitoring is to make health services proactive rather than reactive. Although regular self-tracking is becoming more popular, it is generally sparked by events rather than a desire to take control of one's health. The data gathered through tracking must be put to better use in order to improve your well-being. When combined with improved physician-patient communication, intelligent self-tracking empowers individuals to become more therapy-compliant.

Long-term benefits result from such compliance. Reminders or gaming features that involve and encourage users to be consistent are used in digital healthcare solutions like apps to promote routine tracking behavior. Enhanced access to medical data via these apps has a significant impact on patients' disease awareness. Doctors can also give better care if they have a better understanding of the patient's history and data analytics from self-monitoring, done regularly over a period of time.

Advanced analytics can also help doctors provide laser-focused therapies by taking into consideration different illnesses that a patient may have. Self-awareness and motivation can go a long way toward disease prevention that could be devastating otherwise. Predictive analysis is critical now, especially since our medical resources are limited and better health is becoming more of social responsibility than a personal preference.

Constant monitoring of health and lifestyle parameters is the most effective approach to accomplish this. We can use the app of our choice to record and monitor health parameters such as blood pressure, pulse rate, SPO2, temperature, and glucose; and also record and track sleep patterns, medicine compliance, hand wash, food and water intake, steps walked, workout, weight, activity, and mood. We can maintain health scorecards for recording parameters that we wish to monitor such as cholesterol, hypertension, thyroid, generic parameters, etc. Availability of this data and trend is the key to understanding where our health is going and taking remedial actions in time to save most lifestyle disorders, chronic illnesses, and emergency situations.

Let’s make the most use of technology advancements and the availability of these applications, wearable health monitoring devices, and telehealth.?

Author: Dr. Saloni Kabra, Senior Clinical Consultant, Healthok Global Services.